COVID-19 >>"True and Helpful" Covid Information Thread

[Anonymous]

The latest statistics I saw from Alberta show that sixteen per cent of people catching COVID are fully vaccinated.

[cc]

The latest statistics I saw from Alberta show that sixteen per cent of people catching COVID are fully vaccinated.

Ontario started daily stats on that this week



https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data">https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data



It failed yesterday, but the other 3 of the last 4 days are as follows (I'm counting single vaxxed as unvaxxed)



Vaxxed / UnVaxxed



Cases .......Hospital ..... ICU

75 /   428   ...13   / 83   .......6 /   58

               

79 /   203   ....14   / 61   ......3 /   49

113 /   353   ...11   / 68   ......1 /   53

[Anonymous]

The latest statistics I saw from Alberta show that sixteen per cent of people catching COVID are fully vaccinated.

Ontario has daily stats on that now



https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data">https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data



It failed yesterday, but the other 3 of the last 4 days are as follows (I'm counting single vaxxed as unvaxxed)



Vaxxed / UnVaxxed



Cases .......Hospital ..... ICU

75 /   428   ...13   / 83   .......6 /   58

               

79 /   203   ....14   / 61   ......3 /   49

113 /   353   ...11   / 68   ......1 /   53

Are the first numbers people who are fully vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

We had 817 cases today..



There are now 198 people being treated in hospital for COVID in Alberta..



Of those, 43 were in intensive care units.

[cc]

.

[cc]

The latest statistics I saw from Alberta show that sixteen per cent of people catching COVID are fully vaccinated.

Ontario has daily stats on that now



https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data">https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data



It failed yesterday, but the other 3 of the last 4 days are as follows (I'm counting single vaxxed as unvaxxed)



Vaxxed / UnVaxxed



Cases .......Hospital ..... ICU

75 /   428   ...13   / 83   .......6 /   58

               

79 /   203   ....14   / 61   ......3 /   49

113 /   353   ...11   / 68   ......1 /   53

Are the first numbers people who are fully vaccinated?

Yes



Vaxxed / UnVaxxed .... (I'm counting single vaxxed as unvaxxed)



It's hard to line things up in forum text

[Anonymous]

The latest statistics I saw from Alberta show that sixteen per cent of people catching COVID are fully vaccinated.

Ontario has daily stats on that now



https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data">https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data



It failed yesterday, but the other 3 of the last 4 days are as follows (I'm counting single vaxxed as unvaxxed)



Vaxxed / UnVaxxed



Cases .......Hospital ..... ICU

75 /   428   ...13   / 83   .......6 /   58

               

79 /   203   ....14   / 61   ......3 /   49

113 /   353   ...11   / 68   ......1 /   53

Are the first numbers people who are fully vaccinated?

Yes



Vaxxed / UnVaxxed .... (I'm counting single vaxxed as unvaxxed)



It's hard to line things up in forum text



Ontario is 65% fully vaxxed

That's what I thought cc....thank you.

[cc]

Ontario is 65% fully vaxxed - so first # is from 2/3 population, second # from 1/3 population

[Anonymous]

Ontario is 65% fully vaxxed - so first # is from 2/3 population, second # from 1/3 population

That's what doctors in Alberta are saying too..



Because Alberta is almost seventy per cent fully vaccinated, current daily cases, while high, cannot go as high as before..



We'll see as we know that some vaccines lose a lot of their efficacy over a short period of time.

[Anonymous]

What it's like to catch breakthrough COVID.



Breakthrough cases: What's it like catching COVID-19 after vaccination?



Toronto resident Jana Singer started to develop a sore throat when she was on holiday in Mexico last month.



Upon her return at the Toronto Pearson International Airport, Singer tested positive for COVID-19 – almost two months after getting fully vaccinated with a first dose of Moderna followed by Pfizer. She suspects she got the disease walking around unmasked in Baja.



"I got the vaccine and then I went to a place that had very, very high COVID transmission. And I did nothing to protect myself," the 44-year-old Canadian told Global News.



Breakthrough cases of COVID-19 — when you are infected at least two weeks after the final dose of a vaccine — have been reported in Canada and elsewhere.



As of July 24, in Ontario alone, among the roughly 8.5 million fully vaccinated people, only 1,988 were infected. They showed symptoms after 14 or more days following the last dose.



While the cases are rare and unsurprising, experts say continued surveillance amid the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant is needed.



"There's nothing unusual about the breakthrough case," said Dr. Donald Vinh, an infectious disease specialist and a medical microbiologist at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).



"What the vaccine is primarily supposed to do is prevent you ... from becoming sick once you become infected.



Vinh stressed that the small frequency of breakthrough infections still highlight the fact that vaccines are "absolutely important".



Horacio Bach, an infectious diseases expert at the University of British Columbia (UBC), said while the vaccine doesn't make you completely immune to the virus, it still remains unclear what the long-term effects of infection might be.



"And more problematic is that once you are infected, even if you are vaccinated, you still can release the virus and transmit the virus to other people," he told Global News.



But breakthrough cases among the vaccinated are less contagious compared to unvaccinated people who get the disease, data suggests.



Mild symptoms

In the United States, among the 5,879 breakthrough cases reported as of July 31, 2021 in Washington state, 88 per cent had symptoms, seven per cent were hospitalized and 66 people died of COVID-related illness.



For Singer, her bout with COVID-19 was not a bad experience. She says it felt like a regular cold with no fever — and her symptoms resolved within two days.



"I was nervous at first because I lost my sense of smell and taste, which is very disturbing," she said.



Bach's brother in Israel recently contracted the disease — nearly six months after getting two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.



He developed strong sinusitis, fever and lost his sense of smell and taste as well.



"He was in bed, basically with a very strong flu," according to Bach.



Vinh said a general trend of COVID-19 among those fully vaccinated were mild symptoms, with a low-grade fever, sore throat and cough.



"What we're certainly not seeing are symptoms that are so severe that you require ICU," he added.



Bach agreed, saying symptoms tend to be stronger if you are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.



Data coming out of the United States suggests the same with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying that symptoms and duration of illness in breakthrough cases have been attenuated compared with infections in unvaccinated people.



Among hospitalized or fatal breakthrough cases as July 19, 2021, 74 per cent were aged 65 years or older, the CDC said

https://globalnews.ca/news/8113924/breakthrough-covid-cases-symptoms/?utm_source=GlobalEdmonton&utm_medium=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1shYJz_Vxv1gA0a6T90eWQrhDeK2Jw0Z_CNfuccgqCjYAfsRfEnRzB-xk">https://globalnews.ca/news/8113924/brea ... RfEnRzB-xk">https://globalnews.ca/news/8113924/breakthrough-covid-cases-symptoms/?utm_source=GlobalEdmonton&utm_medium=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1shYJz_Vxv1gA0a6T90eWQrhDeK2Jw0Z_CNfuccgqCjYAfsRfEnRzB-xk

[Anonymous]

In Alberta, 71 per cent of new cases are unvaccinated, 11 per cent are partially vaccinate and 18 per cent are fully vaccinated.

[cc]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/u-s-extending-travel-restrictions-at-border-with-canada-for-another-30-days-1.5554684">U.S. extending travel restrictions at border with Canada for another 30 days



TORONTO -- The United States is extending restrictions on non-essential travel across its land and ferry borders with Canada and Mexico until Sept. 21.



The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tweeted Friday that the measures remain in place to "minimize the spread of COVID-19, including the Delta variant."



Fully vaccinated Americans have been able to enter Canada for non-essential visits since Aug. 9.

[Anonymous]

In Alberta, 71 per cent of new cases are unvaccinated, 11 per cent are partially vaccinate and 18 per cent are fully vaccinated.

One in five cases are fully vaccinated. That is not good.

[Anonymous]

In Alberta, 71 per cent of new cases are unvaccinated, 11 per cent are partially vaccinate and 18 per cent are fully vaccinated.

One in five cases are fully vaccinated. That is not good.

[Anonymous]

In Alberta, 71 per cent of new cases are unvaccinated, 11 per cent are partially vaccinate and 18 per cent are fully vaccinated.

One in five cases are fully vaccinated. That is not good.

It's a bit alarming that perhaps one hundred and fifty fully vaccinated Albertans may have caught COVID yesterday alone..



But, the number of people in hospital and ICU is lower for fully vaccinated people.